The Brookhaven leader., 1887-07-28


saw him cry but once, and that was Al
the burial Of my mother. After sixty
years living together II was hard 10 part
And there are aged people to-day whs
are feeling Just such pain as that want
to tell them there 10 perfect enchantmeu'
in the promises OF the Gospe ;and l come
TO them aud Offer them rzy arm, or take
their arm, and bring them TO this Cos.
pei we'll Sit down, father or mother, sit
down See IL there is any thing at the
well for you. Come, David the Psalm let,
have you any thing en- couraging to oHer
themt
YES" says the Psalmist:
They shall still bring forth fruit IN old age
they shall be fat and lourishint, TO show that
the Lord 10 upright. He is my rock, and there II
no unrighteousness in me.
Come, Isaiah, have you any thing TO say
out of your prophecies for these aged
peoplel
Yes" says Isaiah.
Down to old age I am with thee, and to hear,
hairs will carry thee.
Well, if tho Lord is going to carry you,
you ought not TO worry much about your
falling eyesight and failing limbs Yor
get little worried for fear that some
time you will come 10 want, do youl Your
children and Ersnd-chI dren sometimes
! speak little sharp ut you because oil
your ailments. The Lord will not speak
sharp. Do you think you will come
to WANT Who do you think the Lord isi
Are his gran aries emptyi will he feed
the raven and the rabbit and he lion in
the desert and forget you. Whv,
naturalists tell US that the porpoise will
not forsake its wounded and sick mate.
Aud do you suppose the Lord OF Heaven
and earth has not as much sympathy as
| the fish Of the seat But you say, 81 am
SO near worn out, and I am Of no use TO
God any more"
| Think the Lord knows whether you are
Of any m ore use or not; IL you were OF no
more use he would have taken you before
this. Do you think God has forgotten
| you because he has taken care Of you
seventy or eighty yearsl He thinks more
OF you to-day than he ever did, because
you think more Of Him. May the God Of
Abraham, and Isaac, Jacob, and Paul the
! aged, be your God forever.
But gather all the promises to-day in
q group, and ask the shepherds TO drive
their flocks of lambs and sheep up to the
sparkling supply.
Behold, happy is the man whom God cor
recteth.
Though he cause grief, yet will he lave com
passion.
Many are the afiictions OF the righteous, but
the Lord delvereth him out OF them all.
Weeping may endure for 9 night, but Joy
oometh in the morning,
am determined this morning that no
one shall go out of this house uncom-
fortel. Yonder is tirhid and shrinking
soul who seems TO hide away from the
con- ISOLATION am uttering, as a child with
sore hand hides away from the physi-
clan lest he touch the wound too roughly,
and the mother has to go and compel the
little patient to come out and see the ply.
stefan. So l come to your timid and
shrinking soul to-day, and compel you to
come out In the presence of the Divine
physician. He will not hurt you He
has been healing wounds for many years,
and be will give you gentle and omnipo-
tent med camcnt. But people, when they
have trouble, go anywhere rather than to
God.
De Quincy took opium to get rid Of his
troub es. Charles L; NIB took TO punch.
Theodore Hook took to something
stronger Edwin Forrest took to theatTi.
cal dissipation. And men have run all
around tho earth, hoping in the quick
transit 10 get away from their mis-.
fortunes. II has been dead failure.
There IS only one well that can siake the
thirst Of an afi cted spirit and that %
the deep and inexhaustib!e well Of the
Gospel.
Bnt some one says in the audience:
Notwithstanding all ven have said this
morning, ! find no alienation for my
troubles
Wen, am not through yet. l have left
the most potent consideration for the asst
am going to othe you with the thought
of Heaven. However talkative we may
be, there Will come a time when the
stoutes: and most emphatic interrOPa-
ton will evoke from us no answer. AS
soon as we have closed our lips for the
f ual silence, no power on earth can break
that taciturnity.
But where, o Christian, Will be your
sririti In a scene OF infinite gladness.
The spring morning of Heaven waving its
blossoms in the bright air. Victors fresh
from battle showing their scars. The
rain Of earthly sorrow struck through
with the rain bow of eternal JOY. In one
group God and the angels and the re-
deemed-Paul and Silas, Latimec and
Ridley, Isaiah and Jeremiah, Payson and
John Milton, Gabriel and Michael, the
archangel. Long line Of choiristers
reaching across the hills. Seas Of Joy dash
Ing to the white beach. Conquerors
marching from gate to gate. You among
them.
Oh, what great f1ocH of sheep God will
gather around the celestial well. No
! stone on the Wells mouth, while the shep-
herd waters his sheep. There Jacob will
recognize Rachel, the shepher,tess. And
standing on one side Of the well of eternal
| rapture, your children; and on the other
side Of eternal rapture, your Christian
| ancestry, you will be bounded on all
sides by a Joy so keen and grand
that no other world has eyer been
permitted to experience it. Out
OF that one deep well of Heaven, the
shepherd will dip reunion for the be.
reaved, wealth for the poor, health fer
the sick, rest for the weary. And then all
the flock of the Lords sheep will le
down in the green pastures, and world
without end we will praise the Lord that
on this summer Sabbath morning we were
| permitted to stu ly the story of Jacob and
Rachel, the shepherdess, of the we'll in
MesOpotamia.
EAGrQ AROIIT GOPAS